Mark Papermaster's resignation was motivated by adaptation problems

MG Siegler, from TechCrunch, asked a very pertinent question: why is Apple not leaving the "Antennagate" die? The company went through a painful cycle of accusations, defense, solutions and replies to, when the subject was starting to cool down, rekindle the flame by putting out "the guy responsible for the antenna".

Apple executives with iPhones 4

Whoever thinks this is the best time for Papermaster to go home, raise your iPhone.

There seemed to be no worse time to do this, as if with this blue card Apple recognized that the iPhone 4's antenna “It's a bug, not a feature”. However, according to what the Wall Street Journal he learned, the reasons for Papermaster's departure are far more trivial than the design of Ma's new smartphone, because the different antenna would have been finished too long to be created by the dismissed executive. According to newspaper sources, the biggest problem would have been Papermaster's lack of adaptation to Apple's internal culture.

He had lost Steve Jobs' confidence months ago and for a while he failed to participate in decision-making, due to the fact that he did not have the profile expected by Apple and did not adapt well to the fact that even high-level executives must take care of minors. details under your responsibility, taking care of tasks directly, and not delegating them.

But the question posed by Siegler remains: why just now, when everyone can think the reason is the blessed damn iPhone 4 antenna? John Gruber responds: not to repeat what happened in the dismissal of Tim Bucher, who sued Apple (and won!), Claiming to have been expelled for no reason.

And, just to keep shareholders at peace, the WSJ discloses a rumor that the dismissal had nothing to do with the antenna, but it will always be invoked, in the last case. Got it?